Help! What am I good at?

RE: Help! What am I good at?

Former Member — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:34:33 GMT

Or you could just be really slow in everything like me! :rofl:

RE: Help! What am I good at?

knelson — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:15:34 GMT

I've sort of been considering making the 100 IM my main focus event for next year just because it's a little bit of everything - all the strokes, and requires both power and endurance The 100 IM requires endurance? :laugh2: I'm just really at a point where I could push my swimming in several directions, and I don't really know what's best for me. My advice would be to keep swimming everything. Variety is good and sooner or later you'll start to get a feeling for what your best strokes and distances are.

RE: Help! What am I good at?

Donna — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:54:04 GMT

I would agree that your 50 Fly looks good as does your 50 Back. Maybe you could work on some endurance for the 100's of those strokes for next year. Or just do what I do, swim everything atleast once a year just to say you did it.

RE: Help! What am I good at?

chlorini — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:56:49 GMT

Your question makes me wonder if USMS would ever consider creating age group based A/B/C time standards like those used in USA swimming. I think it would be nice to have goals of making new cuts in our age groups, even if they didn't mean anything in terms of what meets we could attend (like they do in kids' swimming). Something like that might help you, and I think a lot of people would enjoy have stepping stone goal times besides just things like qualifying for nationals or making top 10 times. Just an idea!

RE: Help! What am I good at?

Former Member — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:49:41 GMT

I know that my best event is the 200 free, but I don't care to swim it because it makes my legs hurt for 2 days and slows down the rest of my meet. Do what you enjoy the most. (Oh and your best events are the 50 fly and 100 IM)

RE: Help! What am I good at?

Former Member — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:39:07 GMT

Your 50 fly stands out when I look at all of your times. Nice swim.

RE: Help! What am I good at?

Former Member — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:19:05 GMT

I do agree that swimming events I enjoy is more important than swimming my best events, but I don't really have specific events I like more than others right now. My 500 free a month ago was great, but so was my 25 fly last weekend. I've sort of been considering making the 100 IM my main focus event for next year just because it's a little bit of everything - all the strokes, and requires both power and endurance, and then I can decide later whether I want to work more on 50's or 100's of the individual strokes. I'm just really at a point where I could push my swimming in several directions, and I don't really know what's best for me.

RE: Help! What am I good at?

Muppet — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:59:41 GMT

I’m trying to decide what I’m good at and what strokes & distances to focus on for next year. "Good" is a relative term. Sounds like you were really testing the waters this year, which is a good thing. I recommend to do a recap on each of those events. Which ones did you like more? Which ones did you have a good time? Which ones really challenged you? Which ones did you not like? Was it too long/ too short? Did you have any swims where you had a tough time getting through the race and got out and said "I can totally do better than that!" My recommendation is to use your recap to pick 2-3 events you really like and want to train for. Don't pick so much based on time, but on fun factor as well. I train for the 100 and 500 freestyle, but my next of kin so to speak is 50/100 fly. While I do work in some shorter fly into my workouts, the 1/500s are my focus. The rest fo my events, I just get in and swim them, letting the race come as is and hope for the best. Last year, my PBs were all in the flys and IM. Go figure :) :p

RE: Help! What am I good at?

knelson — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:44:04 GMT

Here's a link to USA Swimming's Power Point Calculator: www.usaswimming.org/.../DesktopDefault.aspx With this you can see how many power points each of your swims is worth. It will pretty much take the guess work out of your question: "what am I good at?"